rapid ascending or descending of notes
Run
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Reverse motion
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imitation in contrary motion, that is, the ascending intervals are changed to descending intervals and the descending interva…
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Repeated Sequence of Two Notes
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see Repeated Notes, Sequences, & Passages
Accentuare
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Italian
to mark with an accent; accessory notes, for example: the upper note in a trill, or the notes above and below the written not…
Beat
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rhythmic pulse in a piece of music; a throbbing or undulating effect taking place in rapid succession when two notes not quit…
Borrowed division
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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…
Disjunct
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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…
Dyad
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a term applied to two notes, in the same way that a triad is a term applied to three notes